The devastated Resafa neighborhood of Aleppo before (bottom) and after the war (top)

Damage assessments emerged as the Syrian government yesterday announced that it had assumed full control of the city a significant victory in a nearly six-year battle with an armed opposition trying to unseat President Bashar Assad.

The battle for Aleppo has wound down after more than four years of brutal street fighting

The analysis only considered residential areas and excluded industrial zones.

After the images were taken, the Syrian government and its allies intensified bombardments in the final phase of the Aleppo offensive.

A Syrian urban consultant said Aleppo had a pre-war stock of about 550,000 housing units, with a total value of about $50 billion.

The fighting in the city may have caused close to $25 billion in loss of housing, said the consultant, who is involved in data collection and requested anonymity because of what he said was a highly politicized debate over the scope of destruction.

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